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Is there anyway to delet the main gmail related to apps?

I was setting up my wifes phone and I signed my email up first to get some tools to tweak her phone. Well now her phone is setup and her email is setup. I went to sync options to delet my email from there and its saying I need to restart the phone, some applications need that email to work? Is there a work around for this so I can remove that account.
I stoped syncing for that account for now, but now she cant sync here google callander instead it will only allow the option to sync mine. I dont want her events showing up on my phone and I am sure she dont want mine showing up on her phone lol. Basicly I am the main email on her phone and I dont want it that way. Any ideas would be great thanks.
Thanks, Thomas

I believe the only way to delete it without resetting is to delete the /data/system/accounts.db
Keep in mind this will delete all the accounts from accounts & sync, and always nandroid backup first.

bwcorvus said:
I believe the only way to delete it without resetting is to delete the /data/system/accounts.db
Keep in mind this will delete all the accounts from accounts & sync, and always nandroid backup first.
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If I do this will I need to reinstall that file again? Or will I just simply need to re assign a new email account?
Thanks, Thomas

twilk73 said:
If I do this will I need to reinstall that file again? Or will I just simply need to re assign a new email account?
Thanks, Thomas
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Wiping data and cache will bring the phone back to the first time after you installed the last rom. Like the first time you booted it.

Male sure to sign her up for a Gmail account.
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dom085 said:
Wiping data and cache will bring the phone back to the first time after you installed the last rom. Like the first time you booted it.
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Yeah I was trying to avoid that route.

notasimpleway said:
Male sure to sign her up for a Gmail account.
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Dude, what?

twilk73 said:
If I do this will I need to reinstall that file again? Or will I just simply need to re assign a new email account?
Thanks, Thomas
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Sorry just checked this post, no you will not have to reinstall. You just have to setup the accounts again.

bwcorvus said:
Sorry just checked this post, no you will not have to reinstall. You just have to setup the accounts again.
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Thank you! I was just about to delet this from my favorits and move on lol.

oh man

i updated my epic from eclair to froyo. everything went well, except that i lost all my contacts. i thought gmail is supposed ot be synched...how do i get them back?

https://www.google.com/accounts/recovery?service=mail
Just follow the steps should reset your password

Go to gmail.com and click the can't access your account? link to reset the password.
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thanks bros but i edited my first post. i got my pw, but my contacts list is empty.

Did you save your contacts to Google or your phone? If phone: start telling people that you lost their numbers.

i always had it synched...anyways, before i did the update i did backup my contacts on titanium backup...if i root my phone now and download the program, would i be able to pull it off?

can i restore my epic back to the eclair firmware when i had my contacts, before updated to froyo? will it work that way?

BigBeard86 said:
can i restore my epic back to the eclair firmware when i had my contacts, before updated to froyo? will it work that way?
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No, you can't just restore back to Eclaire, you have to use Odin to go back. Read this to learn how to go back.

if you were rooted and have clockwork and nandroid backed up b4 updating then, u can restore data only and then u might get your contacts back, if not then i don't think u can...

Contacts.
BigBeard86,
First make sure your contacts are there in your google account on the internet. If they are not there, you may be hosed! If they are then you will be able to sync them again.
You could have been part of the problem last week when google lost many email accounts. Just a thought.
There is not a problem syncing as I am doing on my EPIC after I went from 2.1 to 2.2. Things are synced fine.

Fyi, if you had contacts in your old phone that got "ported" to your new Epic in the Sprint store or wherever you bought it, those will get deleted when you upgrade. Mine did the same thing. The reason being that they are not synced with your Google account automatically and are simply stored in your phone's memory.

Did you log into your gmail account on a computer to see if they are there?

help.. contacts gone

Apparently my wife decided to unsync her phone from google contacts. I flashed her phone tonight and upped the baseband/pri etc.. so no restoring I am assuming?
Anyway, when I brought her up on Miui, I looked at her contacts and nothing was there.. for some dumb reason she decided to unsync them and now she has nothing.
The question is, I did a nandroid prior, but I updated all the baseband/wimax/pri etc.. Can I view the data.img file somehow to just view/print and then she can type them all in again?
thanks a ton in advance on this stupid one

So resync them. They should still be saved to her Gmail. With MIUI you have to manually add your gmail account by going to menu > settings > personal > accounts and sync and then hit add account.

thats what I am saying, she didnt have them synced, just on her phone which was a different rom prior to miui.
thanks

joey3002 said:
thats what I am saying, she didnt have them synced, just on her phone which was a different rom prior to miui.
thanks
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There was a thread around here, on how to tear into a nanrdoid backup, and access the data.img. Figures that search is down right now, and i 'should try again in 20-30 minutes'. I think the easiest thing for you to do at this point, would be to just restore the nandroid, re-sync to google, then reinstall the rom you want. Then the contacts should be synced to gmail contacts, and you should be good to go to re sync them to the phone.

for some dumb reason she decided to unsync them
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^Implies they were synced at some point. If they were then they should still be in her Gmail.

_MetalHead_ said:
^Implies they were synced at some point. If they were then they should still be in her Gmail.
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They have a restore feature that goes back 30 days but she must have deleted the stuff beyond that.. I am doing a nandroid and updating the myn rom to latest build (due to wimax/bb/pri)
Once I get them backed up and synced... then i will just restore to miui
will post update

joey3002 said:
They have a restore feature that goes back 30 days but she must have deleted the stuff beyond that.. I am doing a nandroid and updating the myn rom to latest build (due to wimax/bb/pri)
Once I get them backed up and synced... then i will just restore to miui
will post update
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After you restore your nandroid, export your contacts to SD to have a backup copy of them just in case something like this happens again. That way you can just import them and call it a day.

or the wife could just stop playing in settings

ok, got the contacts exported.. she has 50+ saved on phone only.. is there an easy way to convert them to google under her account?
thanks

issue resolved.. exported the phone contacts to a vcf file, then inported into her account. I am restoring miui now... I am sure the sync will just push to the phone once its done restoring.
thanks guys

joey3002 said:
ok, got the contacts exported.. she has 50+ saved on phone only.. is there an easy way to convert them to google under her account?
thanks
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I think you can upload the exported file as a .CSV to gmail. And then sync the phone with Gmail and they should all be there saved as google contacts.
edit: glad you got it figured out.

Retrieving contacts

Hi guys, I'm having a lot of trouble getting my contacts back on my new rom.
Maybe I just dont know how to sync *from* google to my phone, I have always chosen the google option when creating new contacts but have never manually done a contact sync with google. I looked around on my google account but it says I have no contacts. I have a Nandroid backup but cant read the .img files to get to the contacts. I'm currently trying nandroid browser but it keeps trying to load without actually loading it. I have a titanium backup but after re-downloading it to the new rom it doesnt have an option for recover, only backup in my contacts storage. I did a nandroid backup before flashing my new rom, but the new rom has a different kernel which wont let me recover to my old rom without flashing a compatible kernel of my old rom. It was so long ago that I dont even remember what my old rom was, but it was a sense based rom. I've tried to find a 2.2 stock kernel to see if my old rom will load with that but every download link I try is broken or the file doesnt work.
This is driving me insane, everything I try is a brick wall. If you guys have some insight that would help out a LOT.
Contrary to my name, I do have an htc evo 4g.

Any ideas? Does anyone know of a program that will read the .img files on my mac? Can I go to the sprint store to get the contacts? I think I've done that before, but I'm pretty sure they were on my phone as well....

You synced your Gmail account in accounts and sync right?

Yeah, it has the check mark next to contacts. Interesting tho, when I went to my google account nothing showed up in my contacts section... I found my old rom but the updated rom manager wont let me install it. I think they're gone. I also found another app (app extractor) and that didnt get them back either. I guess anyone worth staying in contact with will eventually call me hahaha!!

Make sure you have the right account registered and recheck the contacts sync icon just to be sure.

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Make sure you have the right account registered and recheck the contacts sync icon just to be sure.
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Check pm:thumbup:
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I am currently having the same issue. I have a rooted evo 4g and I did a factory reset and loaded the 2.3.5 rom last night. I linked up my google account with my phone and i got a lot of contacts back, but not all of them. The one's I really need (mom, wife, etc.) weren't there. I logged onto my gmail account through the pc and it had the same contacts that synced up. It was weird because whenever i manually entered a new contact, i made sure I created it with the google account and I synced the account before I wiped the phone. I gave up, and like the OP said, if they really want to talk to me they'll contact me. I would still like to retrieve my contacts though.

ok guys...ran into this with my wife. When adding contacts make sure you add them as a Google contact. Should be a drop down in the contact page...otherwise they will only be stored as "phone"contacts
Hopefully they are saved with a Nan backup. If so expect them to your computer as a csv file and import to Gmail and next time be sure you are adding a new one as a Google contact
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How to bypass or skip android wizard? Please Help.

Yesterday my gmail was hacked. And now I can't access it. Then I full wipe and flash a rom but now I can't get pass the wizard set up because I need to log-in the hacked gmail because it was the last gmail that was sync on my device. What can I do? Please Help. Many thanks for the help.

Create a new gmail account that has a better password then use that to get past the wizard.
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That will not work in the new 5.1.1 update.
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veeny101 said:
Yesterday my gmail was hacked. And now I can't access it. Then I full wipe and flash a rom but now I can't get pass the wizard set up because I need to log-in the hacked gmail because it was the last gmail that was sync on my device. What can I do? Please Help. Many thanks for the help.
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reset the password via a PC/Google then try again with the new, correct password
I'm assuming you have the 2nd security option active of course if not.......................:crying:

veeny101 said:
Yesterday my gmail was hacked. And now I can't access it. Then I full wipe and flash a rom but now I can't get pass the wizard set up because I need to log-in the hacked gmail because it was the last gmail that was sync on my device. What can I do? Please Help. Many thanks for the help.
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It happened to me because I bought the phone used and the person forgot to disable that feature in Accounts & Sync.
What I did to make it work is to Downgrade to a 5.0 Android custom ROM (or official if you can, I couldn't, I don't know how and I'm not S-Off), and then sign in your account there, let your gmail account sync and then flash a 5.1 custom or official Rom from the same developer over it without wiping anything. Then you should be ok. Let me know if it works.
You could also try to reset your password and then wait 72 hours.

Has this been resolved yet? I have exactly the same problem..